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Robert Klara was previously on staff at titles including Town & Country, Architecture and American Road. His essays, books reviews and travel pieces have appeared in publications including American Heritage, The New York Daily News and the Christian Science Monitor. An historian who lectures on architecture and urbanism, his first non-fiction book, FDR’s Funeral Train, was published by Macmillan in April 2010.